electionHistory: State by State Election Results Through History

In duncantl/SVGAnnotation: Tools for post-processing SVG plots created in R

Description

A list containing the results of each presidential election between 1900 and 2008.

Usage

data(electionHistory)

Format

This is a list. Each element is a named character vector with the state by state data on the party of the presidential candidate who received the greatest popular vote.

Details

This list contains the results for each oh the 28 Presidential elections between 1900 and 2008.

Each list element contains a named character vector in which the names correspond to states (lower case) and the values correspond to the party color of the winning candidate, i.e. "#FF0000" (red) for Republican, "#0000FF" (blue) for Democrat, and "#00FF00" (green) for other.

Note

This is one of the objects found in ElectionHistory.rda. See the see also section for related objects.

Note

Not all list elements are the same length because the United States did not contain all 50 current states until 1959.

Source

Scraped from http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/

duncantl/SVGAnnotation documentation built on May 15, 2019, 5:57 p.m.